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>>>>> "Michael" == Michael A Endsley <me@corecom.net> writes:

    >>> Skip - been wasting a lot of time at all hours trying to do
    >>> some work!!
    >>  -- If you remember gopher, veronica, archie, ftp and using
    >> differant programs for everything(including email) - YOUR OLD!
    >> 
    Michael> Not only do I have and still use them, I also still have
    Michael> a cartridge for my C64 that is 300 baud!  NO, I DON'T USE
    Michael> IT!  :)

I still have in a box somewhere among all this compujunk a PMMI S-100
modem -- the same as the one that Ward Christensen wrote the original
xmodem protocol for.  It was rated 300 baud, but on a clean line, you
could crank it up to 720 baud.  Now that was really cooking, circa
1979.

I also worked with the 202-C half duplex 1200 baud modems in 1971, and
the 2000 baud bisync modems on an IBM 2780 remote batch terminal in
1969.  We have come a loooooonnnnnnnnggggggggg way.  

I am now working on a board for a client that has 168 T1 lines coming
into it and drops it all onto a 20 GB/sec ATM switching fabric.  Now
thats cooking, 1997 style!

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